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3 : the process of enforcing a legaljudgment (as against a debtor); also : a judicial writ directing such enforcement

4 : the act or mode or result of performance

5 archaic : effective or destructive action <his brandished steel, which smoked with bloody execution — Shakespeare> —usually used with do <as soon as day came, we went out to see what execution we had done — Daniel Defoe>